All the members are good people, only the host is a pervert

After Lin Ruan thought she had done everything she could, her originally healthy body gradually became fragile and various diseases followed.

At first, these symptoms were just occasional mild headaches and fevers, but over time, they became more frequent.

The system checked her several times and found nothing wrong with Lin Ruan's body, except that all her organs were deteriorating at a noticeable rate.

It was unusually silent, even afraid that Lin Ruan would ask it the reason.

The price the host pays for asking for help is the vitality of his body.

Using life force as a medium, the system can extract the energy of this world in a special way and accumulate enough energy to cross into the next world.

If the host asks for help too infrequently, it won't be able to accumulate enough energy; if the host asks for help too often, the system may not be able to complete the energy accumulation before their vitality is exhausted.

It was no novice, but rather a seasoned warrior, battle-hardened. Every host it had followed, without exception, had their vitality exhausted in a certain world before it could accumulate sufficient energy, and then it would enter a dormant state, quietly awaiting the arrival of the next host.

Repeatedly.

Fortunately, this time it has accumulated enough energy to carry Lin Ruan to a new world.

What about those dead hosts? The system vaguely felt as if it knew where they had gone, but upon closer examination, it couldn't place it. Its core authority wasn't in its own hands; after all, it was merely a developed energy collection system.

In other words, both it and Linruan are just tools being used.

However, the system vaguely remembered scenes of some collapsed people yelling at it. Those were its previous hosts. It couldn't remember the reason, but it vaguely felt that it was related to its extraction of vitality.

But it also has its own thoughts, and it wants to avoid being hated by its host, at least for once.

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Lin Ruan, however, accepted the changes in her body calmly, and it could even be said that this was the result she expected to see.

Perhaps it might seem a bit hypocritical or cowardly to say this, but even though she was already the eldest princess, she still felt endlessly oppressed - she really didn't like this era.

She put in so much effort and planned carefully, treading on thin ice at every step, but what did she get in the end?

Feudal society is still feudal society. Although the status of women has improved slightly, they still cannot escape the shackles of male superiority and female inferiority.

Lin Ruan had thought countless times about simply rising up in rebellion and building an ideal country. However, even if he really did succeed, what would it matter?

After all, she is just a passer-by in this world, but she always tries to be responsible for the indigenous people here.

It was for this reason that Lin Ruan had devoted herself to the imperial court. After all, she was already unhappy in this utterly awful society, and if she couldn't hold the power to change the world, she would rather die.

But what can be done even if one holds supreme power?

There are so many things she can do, yet she can do nothing.

She also couldn't promote the advancement and development of science and technology, or trigger social change. After all, this was just a cyclical world. No matter how many seeds she planted, they wouldn't set the prairie ablaze, and the revolutionary red nation wouldn't appear in this world.

She had so many desires, yet so few things she could actually do. Countless complex emotions were raging in her body, running wildly around, but even so, they showed no signs of abating.

She has never been able to control her emotions and body.

In the end, these negative emotions that had been suppressed for decades came upon her like a surging tide, turning into illness that repeatedly tortured her body that was unable to fight back, but Lin Ruan chose to accept it all calmly.

The system doesn't know all this.

Fortunately, Lin Ruan did not ask it.

After Lin Ruan fell ill, various rewards came from the palace. However, the Empress Dowager, who usually called Lin Ruan into the palace to chat, asked the imperial physician several times but there was no news.

Just like the system.

Lin Ruan thought leisurely, it turns out that both people and systems feel guilty, which is quite interesting.

She coughed a few times, and An Lan hurried over, reaching out and carefully helping Lin Ruan up. Meanwhile, Rouju gently offered her a cup of lukewarm water. Luo Mei and Kong Zhu stood quietly by, watching Lin Ruan with concern, as if afraid she might feel unwell.

Nowadays, the number of servants in the mansion was not as large as before. Realizing his time was running out, Lin Ruan divided them into several groups, abolished their slavery, and gave them a certain amount of property. These servants could choose to return home and reunite with their families, or they could choose to stay in the capital, fend for themselves, and start a new life. Everything was left to their own decision, and Lin Ruan did not interfere too much.

Uncle Lin was old, so after asking the others about their wishes, Lin Ruan decided to let him adopt Xiao Yuzi as his adopted son, and also adopted An Lan and the other four and Feicui as adopted daughters. This formed a temporary family, and they would be able to help each other in the future. At the same time, it would also allow Uncle Lin to have someone to rely on in his old age and no longer be lonely.

The palace maids that Lin Ruan had taken out of the palace were now properly arranged by her to work as stewards of the imperial manor. Xiao Yuzi, on the other hand, became the chief steward of the imperial manor.

The imperial farm they were staying at happened to be the one the emperor had gifted to Li Changchun for the purpose of cultivating crops. Lin Ruan handed the peanuts to Xiao Yuzi, who then assisted Li Changchun in research and cultivation, giving them a final push in their futures.

Due to their physical disabilities, eunuchs would likely find it difficult to truly integrate into society even if they were freed from slavery. For this reason, Lin Ruan, after careful consideration, decided to place them in the imperial estate. There, they could continue to utilize their talents and serve the imperial family while receiving the respect and treatment they deserved.

On New Year's Eve when Lin Ruan was forty-nine, she suddenly said to the system, "Xiao Shiqi, let all the wintersweets in Dasheng bloom tomorrow. I haven't seen them in full bloom in a long time."

The system was stunned, and suddenly remembered the night when Lin Ruan asked it to help the wintersweet transplanted from the An Ning Marquis' Mansion bloom, and said to it "May you be healthy every year."

Maybe it hadn't communicated with Linruan for a long time, so when it spoke this time, the code ran a little slowly.

"Okay, Lin Ruan." This time, it didn't call her host.

Lin Ruan closed her eyes quietly, and ended her life peacefully.

"Lin Ruan, do you need to stay here for two days and check on them?" asked the system.

Maybe it just wanted Lin Ruan to stay for one night and see the plum blossoms tomorrow morning.

"No need." Lin Ruan's voice was calm, without a trace of nostalgia.

"Let's go," she said.

The next day, the news of Princess Taiping's death spread throughout the capital in an instant. The wintersweets in Dasheng bloomed overnight, as if to see her off.